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NASA getting involved in search for missing Maylasian plane: reports

International Space Station

With Earth as a backdrop, the International Space Station is pictured in this 2005 photo from the Space Shuttle Discovery. NASA says it will see if cameras aboard the station and cameras in its satellites can help find a missing Maylasian plane. (Contributed by NASA)

WASHINGTON - NASA has joined the search for the missing Maylasian jetliner. The space agency will use its climate and Earth-observing satellites and the International Space Station's cameras to look for debris, according to reports.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Jr. said in Alabama March 14 that the agency stood willing to help, but that no one had asked. Now, reports say NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites will be used and their recent archives searched.

"Our satellites and space-based cameras are designed for long-term scientific data gathering and Earth observation. They're really not meant to look for a missing aircraft, and obviously NASA isn't a lead agency in this effort. But we're trying to support the search, if possible," NASA spokesman Allard Beutel said.